Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz has started work on a remake of Lars von Trier's 2006 comedy The Boss Of It All.

According to The Wrap, Hurwitz has teamed up with Universal and Imagine Entertainment with a view to directing the project from a script by Emma Forrest. Imagine's Brian Grazer and Ron Howard are on board as executive producers.

Boss Of It All centres on the owner of a small IT company who fabricates a manager above him in order to break bad news to his employees more easily. When his firm is sold and the new owners ask to meet the fictional boss, he hires an out-of-work actor to play him.

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Hurwitz is also penning the big screen spinoff of sitcom Arrested Development and hopes to direct it this year.